Change is impossible without struggle and resistance. The intensity of such conflict and the form which its takes varies dramatically in different times and places but one constant has been the struggle between classes, whilst in the recent past 'nation' has been central to understanding the form which conflicts have taken.

Under the theme of class, nation and resistance the articles in this issue provide insight into how different aspects of the struggle might be understood, ranging through the ideological, taking on different aspects of this opposition to fascism and considering the relationship between socialism and national liberation.

David Renton looks at class struggle and the way in which the past is used a moral critique by re-examining the nineteenth-century history of the Norman Yoke myth. Ran Greenstein examines the ideology and practice of socialist anti-Zionism in Israel. Evan Smith looks at the relationship between the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Socialist Workers Party in the anti-fascist struggles of the 1970s. Maria Kyriakidou and Sotiris Themistokleous examine the struggle to recognise the national anti-Nazi resistance movement of post-war Greece and the state repression of this movement. In the perspectives section Archie Potts suggests some ways in which the examination of the built environment enables a re-examination of post-unification Germany's understanding of the history of the German Democratic Republic.